For its fifteenth year, Cinema One Originals loudly and proudly declare what it stood for all these years, originality in all its permutations, and challenging old and new audiences if they’re ready for the Cinema One Originals to Experience an experience that goes beyond cinema, beyond cinephilia, beyond entertainment.
There are four first time filmmakers, three previous Cinema One Originals alumni, and one director making her second feature and her Cinema One Originals debut.
Returning to Cinema One Originals are Victor Villanueva and Kevin Dayrit, who made their feature film debuts with Cinema One Originals.
Denise O Hara makes her Cinema One Originals debut and her second feature with Tayo Muna Habang Hindi Pa Tayo a rom-com inversion with JC Santos and Jane Oineza, about the underside of trauma that even the truest of loves have.
There will also be screenings at Vista Cinemas in Iloilo and Evia Lifestyle and in Cinema Centenario, Cinema 76, Black Maria, UP Cine Adarna, and FDCP Cinematheque Manila.
CINEMA ONE COMPETITION 1: LUCID
Alessandra De Rossi plays a young woman who leads a lonely, mundane existence in the real world but who has the perfect life in her lucid dreams which she can somehow control, meets a mysterious stranger, played by JM de Guzman, who challenges her to turn her dream life into something more adventurous.
The man of your dreams is on his way but only in your dreams. Kaya mo?
Lucid premieres on November 10, 7:30 PM at Trinoma.
CINEMA ONE COMPETITION 2: METAMORPHOSIS
Statistically, one out of 2000 is born an intersexual, most of them are in hiding because of the stigma that’s attached to their unconventional anatomies.
Born with both male and female genitals, but raised like a boy by his conservative family, Adam goes through all the things prepubescent boys go through, including a fascination with strange animals he takes for pets and being smitten by a lovely girl.
The only choice you don’t have is the one you chose. Kaya mo?
Gold Aceron, Iana Bernardez, Ivan Padilla, Ricky Davao and Yayo Aguila star in Metamorphosis which premieres on November 10, 5 PM at Trinoma.
CINEMA ONE COMPETITION 3: O
It’s about vampires and a rom-com with a love triangle or a love square in our case O centers on a funeral parlor intern and closet necrophiliac who starts pushing blood after she meets a vampire drug lord whose sister she falls in love with, complicating matters even more than they already are.
Kagatin o Mabitin? Pati dugo mo, hihingin, Kaya Mo?!
Anna Luna, Sarah Carlos, Lauren Young and Jasmine Curtis-Smith headline O which premieres on November 8,10 PM at Trinoma.
CINEMA ONE COMPETITION 4: SILA SILA
Sila is essentially an LGBT ghost story, or an LGBT ghosting story, in which a young man whose breakups are messy and have severe and traumatic repercussions finds himself not only confronting the people on the receiving end of those breakups but navigating feelings he had thought long gone but now suddenly rekindled.
Ghosting this modern horror does not really deal with a scary event or a monstrous being. But it still deals with fear. Although it isn’t exactly friendly ghosting. This ghosting still inflicts pain.
What if the one that lets you get away comes back? Kaya mo?
Gio Gahol and Topher Fabregas star in Sila Sila which premieres on November 8, 7:30 PM at Trinoma.
CINEMA ONE COMPETITION 5: TAYO MUNA HABANG HINDI PA TAYO
Tayo Muna Habang Hindi Pa Tayo is a love story that comes close but not far enough.
“Why are there so many love stories? Because it feels good to watch how two people out of billions find each other and connect.”
When the one you love is the one you can’t have. Kaya mo?
Tayo Muna Habang Hindi Pa Tayo stars JC Santos and Jane Oineza and premieres on Nov. 9, 7:30pm at Trinoma.
CINEMA ONE COMPETITION 6: TIA MADRE
The panic of forgetting to water the plants in fear of a yantok hitting your legs, the discomfort of having to drink water all day at school because you have nothing to eat, the humiliation of coming to school every day wearing the same unwashed uniform for the past three days.
TFW your mother’s scares you more than any ghost. Kaya mo?
Cherie Gil and Jana Agoncillo star in Tia Madre, which premieres on November 9, 5 PM at Trinoma.
CINEMA ONE COMPETITION 7: UTOPIA
A freelance videographer, a rookie police officer, an undercover PDEA agent, and crime in progress.
Ask any Filipino these days and they’ll tell you that utopia, a perfect world means a world where justice exists.
Dustin Celestino breaks down the title of his debut feature and breaks down its core.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong unless a comet passes through the sky. Kaya mo?
Enzo Pineda, Vin Abrenica, Aaron Villaflor star in Utopia which premieres on November 9, 10 PM at Gateway.
CINEMA ONE COMPETITION 8: YOURS TRULY SHIRLEY
Yours Truly Shirley marks the return of Regine Velasquez to the big screen playing the eponymous widow of the title who hasn’t quite moved on from the untimely death of her husband in a motorcycle accident and her grief is making her do funny things, enjoy imagining the newest pop sensation sweeping the country is the reincarnation of her dead husband.
What happens when your dead husband reincarnated in the body of a young pop star? Kaya mo?
Yours Truly Shirley co-stars Denise Padilla and Rayt Carreon. It premieres on November 10, 9:45 PM at Trinoma.
